The facts:
1. I ran 7.5 miles in 1 hour in a medium-sized American City
2. I used the Nike+ App
3. I played music stored on Gear S2 and used milk
4. I did not bring my phone
5. I brought a Garmin 305 for distance accuracy comparison
Bottom line: In my opinion, this thing is not a good running companion at all. I am very likely returning it.
What went wrong:
1. When trying to read the display during running (holding wrist to face), the screen blacks out after ~2-3sec, making navigation and manipulation nearly impossible. My guess is the gyroscope is not optimized for running. It probably things the tempo of your running is you dropping your wrist to your side. Big issue in my opinion. Why even include S-health?!?
2. The Audio cuts in and out periodically under all circumstances (streaming and storage music)
3. Nike+ will only play music on the storage and will not allow concurrent milk streaming
4. I turned milk on and left Nike+ in the background, as there was no way of running Milk in the background of Nike+. While playing Milk music, Nike+ kept recording for at least a mile, as I checked it to make sure, but at the end of the run, it erased my running data so I do not know if it was accurate. It must have stop recording at some point for some reason. I only know my distance b/c I brought my Garmin. Very disappointing.
5. I ran through around 50-55% of the battery in an hour running with location on and playing music
6. Milk periodically stopped playing for no real reason. Poor signal may be the culprit, but I am in a medium sized metro-area, so I doubt it. After 35 minutes it refused to open and had some error message I could not read. It became worthless.
7. Heart rate on demand did not work
8. It runs sluggishly when playing music and tracking running.
What went right:
1. It lasted for 1 hour without losing all battery.
2. It still told the time and battery %
I'm not happy with this at all. Samsung highlights this partially as a health watch, but it does a poor job at functioning as a below-average health watch. I'm going to try it again tomorrow with the S-health running feature and hopefully I'll have more success.
1. I ran 7.5 miles in 1 hour in a medium-sized American City
2. I used the Nike+ App
3. I played music stored on Gear S2 and used milk
4. I did not bring my phone
5. I brought a Garmin 305 for distance accuracy comparison
Bottom line: In my opinion, this thing is not a good running companion at all. I am very likely returning it.
What went wrong:
1. When trying to read the display during running (holding wrist to face), the screen blacks out after ~2-3sec, making navigation and manipulation nearly impossible. My guess is the gyroscope is not optimized for running. It probably things the tempo of your running is you dropping your wrist to your side. Big issue in my opinion. Why even include S-health?!?
2. The Audio cuts in and out periodically under all circumstances (streaming and storage music)
3. Nike+ will only play music on the storage and will not allow concurrent milk streaming
4. I turned milk on and left Nike+ in the background, as there was no way of running Milk in the background of Nike+. While playing Milk music, Nike+ kept recording for at least a mile, as I checked it to make sure, but at the end of the run, it erased my running data so I do not know if it was accurate. It must have stop recording at some point for some reason. I only know my distance b/c I brought my Garmin. Very disappointing.
5. I ran through around 50-55% of the battery in an hour running with location on and playing music
6. Milk periodically stopped playing for no real reason. Poor signal may be the culprit, but I am in a medium sized metro-area, so I doubt it. After 35 minutes it refused to open and had some error message I could not read. It became worthless.
7. Heart rate on demand did not work
8. It runs sluggishly when playing music and tracking running.
What went right:
1. It lasted for 1 hour without losing all battery.
2. It still told the time and battery %
I'm not happy with this at all. Samsung highlights this partially as a health watch, but it does a poor job at functioning as a below-average health watch. I'm going to try it again tomorrow with the S-health running feature and hopefully I'll have more success.